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  *看* | 看* | *看
to see; to look at / to read / to watch / to visit; to call on / to consider; to regard as / to look after / to treat (a patient or illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after a verb) to give it a try / to watch out for
HSK 1
sick person / patient / invalid / CL: 個|个
HSK 1
to be patient / patience
HSK 5
to visit a doctor / to see a patient
HSK 1
patient; sufferer
HSK 6
slow and patient / chronic (disease) / slow to take effect (e.g. a slow poison)
HSK 7-9
doctor-patient
to provide critical care (to a patient or a diseased plant)
HSK 7-9
earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
state of an illness / patient's condition
HSK 6
forest of apricot trees / (fig.) honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉, 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees)
not to mind taking all the trouble (idiom) / to take great pains / to be very patient
illness / disease / patient / sufferer
(medicine) to complain of; a patient's brief account of their illness / (law) main suit; principal claim
long illness makes the patient into a good doctor (idiom)
to treat the disease to save the patient / to criticize a person in order to help him
critically ill patient
to attend to / to care for (patients etc) / to look after / to wait upon / to serve / also written 伏侍, see also 服事
private prosecution (law) / (of a patient) to describe (one's symptoms)
treatment involving the use of tonics to restore the patient's health / reinforcing method (in acupuncture)
(proverb) a long illness makes the patient into a doctor
sick personnel / person on the sick list / patient
(TCM) diagnosis based on the patient's pulse / to make such a diagnosis
(neologism, attested by 2013) organized disruption of healthcare facilities or verbal and physical abuse of medical staff by an aggrieved patient or proxies such as family members or hired thugs, typically aimed at obtaining compensation
to exercise forbearance / patient and accommodating
to prep a patient's skin prior to surgery (shaving hair, cleansing etc)
hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom) / one just has to be patient / haste will ruin everything
child patient; pediatric patient
state of an illness / patient's condition
(of a doctor) to see a patient; to give a consultation / (of a patient) to see a doctor
Dong Feng, doctor during Three Kingdoms period, famous for refusing fees and requesting that his patients plant apricot trees instead
(of a surgeon) to operate (on sb) / (of a patient) to have an operation
diagnosis and treatment based on an overall analysis of the illness and the patient's condition
person who is passed back and forth, with nobody willing to look after them (e.g. a child of divorced parents) / (esp.) patient who gets shuttled from hospital to hospital, each of which refuses to admit the patient for treatment
to reissue / (of a disease) to recur / (of a patient) to suffer a relapse
"infusion clan", patients who prefer medication by drip rather than orally or by injection etc
temperature (esp. of medical patient)
patient work makes a fine product
doctors like to treat those who are not sick so that they can get credit for the patient's "recovery" (idiom)
to visit a sick person or patient
person suffering (from a disease or poisoning) / a patient
to wait patiently / heron
(of a surgeon) to perform an operation / (of a patient) to have an operation / to decapitate / to behead / to single out as a point of attack
to taste a patient's excrement (a form of medical examination, seen as an act of loyalty or filial piety) / to suck up to sb; to kiss ass
(medicine) digital examination (of a patient's rectum, vagina etc)
degree of seriousness of an illness / patient's condition
to transfer (a patient for treatment in a different hospital)
sick personnel / person on the sick list / patient
sick person; patient
to visit a patient at home (of a doctor) / house call
patient confidentiality (medicine)
to visit (a patient, prisoner etc) / to look inquiringly
to see patients (of doctor) / to hold a surgery
continuous and patient effort (idiom)
(epidemiology) patient zero
to guide patiently and systematically (idiom)
a type of poisonous fungus that grows on reeds, used in Chinese medicine to help cure patients suffering from ascaris (parasitic worms)
to transfer (a patient) to a different hospital / to transfer to hospital (e.g. a prisoner)
patient work makes a skilled craftsman
to accompany / (of a doctor etc) to do a follow-up (on a patient, client etc)
a patient and his family


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